The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-01-14


against Sheriff GRAY, that, as q friend, hav
ing a personal knowledge of good portion
of the facts and having satisfied myself by
reference to others, and to the record, as to
the bslance, l. with your permission, SUBJ
nit the following
CORY
BEDFORD, DEC %, 1886.
Come for AukeD bauer and pay costs.
I Answer if coming.
(SiEred) T. P GILCHRIsT.
Answered the same day as follows
'Wili be there for Aukpnbauer to NOR
row.
CSigned) 81 a. GRAY.
( II pursuance Of the above Sheriff Gray,
. with Thomas Peach, came TO GaIitztn on
Wednesday evening to take the train for
Bedford, when he, Sheriff Gray, was told
by John Smith, policeman, in my presercs.
that Aukeuhauar would be brought TO- Gal
hizin on the train nearly due, and that he
. (SuUh) had al! arrangements made to take
the prisoner 30 Ebensburg, but as there was
. a large cr0wj ag the station aud threats Of
lyuchiue were made, he was glad the Suer-
iff was there aud Insisted on the Sheriff TAX
iDE the warrant and letting him 1Smiti) out
of the trouble. Smith beine very excited
and nervous when he thus spoke to GRAY,
the Sheriff finally agreed TO do as requested,
but first tod Smith as he had the arrange
meuts made he should carry them out. This
is how the Sheriff obtained The warrant
from Smith. AukeHbaueT not arriving on
the train Smith got bold again and asked
the Sheriff for the warrant 70 mark some
costs on it when Gray told him 20 take 1t
and bold it. In pursuance OF his purpose
the Sheriff got duplicate warrant from the
Squire and took the next train for Bedford.
This fact leaked through the sieve like port
folio Of the Ministers Of Justice Of this
place, and at the suggestion of the genial
landlord" the redOubtable descendant of the
hero Of early Virginia, whose life was saved
by the daughter of POwhatau, thought it
"wOuld be worth fifty dollars 60 travel all
night and head the Sheriff" It was the de-
NAL of anything to do with the matter on
the part of the landlord that gave rise TO
the bet which the Sheriff offered, but which
the genial gentleman declined when Tom
Burns offered to take it. Ire bet being
afterwards withdrawn at the suggestion and
through the influence of outsiders and not
by Gray as the correspondent stated, The
man who wrote that did not know Sheriff
Gray. OF he never would have said IL. Tom
Burns is p gentleman whose word Is ever
reliable, and I refer any person TO him.
However. in this connection The irQuj=itive
genial remarked that had the Sheriff only
informed any person at Gallitzin as to what
be was doing they would not have done as
they did. The Sheriff simply replied .hat
he didn't ran about telling his business 70
all the old women 10 the county.
When Smith got 70 Bedford Sheriff DiehI
refused to trust him with the prisoner, tell
ing him ne, the Sheriff, did not know but
Smith might be a friend Of the prisoner, etc
when Smith, with s flourish, offered TO give
q $40 600 bond that he would deliver the
prisoner to jail. Sheriff Diahl agreed to ac-
cept the offer and Smith requested him 70 90
to the telegraph office, when the Sheriff
told him it was not customary 20 take large
bonds by telegraph in that section. For
proof Of this I refer to the Sheriff Of Bed
ford. The Sheriff theu sent a deputy,
Icholds, with the prisoner, and when Smith
proposed taking the sled the deputy told
him (Smith) he could go in the sled put the
prisoner would % with him. Icholds, i'll the
train.
was safely landed, etc So he was by the
Dep. Sheriff, but not by policeman Smith.
As to waiting to return with Plstt, the
fact is Frank said 70 Gray it was lonesome
drive by himself and the Sheriff proposed If
he could make pretty good time 70 come
back with him, P'att Put the latter said
his team was tagged and naeued rest, and
even then he could drive only moderately.
50 the Sheriff declined riding so long 10 the
cold and took The train So much for the
ina giuary refusal of Mr.. Platt to carry the
Sheriff and Dep. Peach to GaNitzin
Next, says this correspondent. "thav."
(Gray and Peach,) chad teIceraphed to
O'Hara Bros, Ebensturr Iiyerymen, 20 have
q sled at Gailitzip for them and the prIs-
oner." Yet in she same paragraph The vri-
ter says, Gray and Peach were beside
themselves with. rage when they found the
prisoner gone" Mark The contradiction.
Gray was enraged when he found the pris-
oner gone, yet he teleera phed for convey
ance to take the prisoner to Ebensburg. Snrp-
lythat writer, or TON Swank when he fixed
up the letter, must have been "besida him
self'' with something when he got so badly
mixed. But the saying runs "the Oldest
liar will catch himself if you only give him
rope enough"
Then "the mob Of listeners came near at /
tacSing the Sheriff" -Whas mob? The
genial IandloId's" immediate hackers, or
is there standing, ever ready-to-hand moo :
for all emergeneies IN our village? Doubt
less it was the same mob Smith was SO nerv- (
Gus about when he asked Gray to take the I
warrant.
"Circumvent Che Sheriff. 70 il well applied Z
to smith in this transaction. as it means to I.
cheat, TO deceive, etc, See Webster.
But the sores place, and must close, is
the fact that the amateur Pinkertons receive /
no pay for their trouble the Dep. Sheriff /
who brought Au71er bauer alone being paid. /.
and foT this they blame Sheriff Gray-aud .
perhaps justly.
IL the glory to the valiant Smith and the
"genisI lardlord'' is not sufficient remuner- !
alton they might consider the philosophy of
the Lies,
smaller boats should keep near shore,
But larger ones may venture more"
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